Orgasm during pregnancy feels different

Women have a lot of body changes to contend with when they're pregnant. There's the swollen ankles, hormonal changes, cravings, stretch marks, weight gain - not to mention the fact you have an actual human growing inside you. So when you see your stomach harden into a weird shape during sex or after an orgasm, it can be easy to panic about it. When uterus and abdomen muscles contract during pregnancy, the belly can form a pointed or triangular shape - which can look alarming but it is totally normal and not dangerous - and this contraction tends to happen during or after orgasm.

Jane Barry July 31, It can be an odd topic during pregnancy, but here's some food for thought. For all sorts of reasons, babies, until they are able to communicate, are incapable of telling us what they know and how they feel. And, quite apart from this, they are also too young to place a value judgement on what you are doing. You are not alone there, sister.

When you're expecting, you likely spend a lot of time thinking about the baby -- and what will happen after he or she arrives. There are strollers to buy! Prenatal vitamins to pop! Birth plans to devise!

Sex-wise, my wife and I have never found pregnancy a problem, and this pregnancy has been no exception. I am not sure if it's unusual, but I found all the fecundity - the swollen belly, the enormous boobs - rather arousing. Pregnancy certainly lends itself to a certain gingerness when it comes to the more kinetic elements of intercourse. In fact, the idea that sex should continue unabated during pregnancy is actually a relatively new notion.